Season 7 Homepage V

by SirJohnnyEnglish Mon 08 Dec 2014, 11:09 am

First topic message reminder :

Breaking News: London Irish pull off the bottom of the table with win against inform Chiefs, Sale pick up bonus point win against league leaders while the gap between 4th and 5th widens following Quins win.

Season 7 Homepage V - Page 12 Aviva-Premiership-Trophy-e1306508139154

2013/2014 – London Wasps
2012/2013 – Leicester Tigers
2011/2012 – Newcastle Falcons
2010/2011 - Newcastle Falcons
2009/2010 – Saracens
2008/2009 - London Irish

POS	Aviva Premiership	PLAYED	WON	DREW	LOST	P F	P A	P D	T F	T A	TBP	LBP	POINTS
1	Northampton Saints	13	11	0	2	368	321	47	40	30	6	2	52
2	Sale Sharks *	13	10	0	3	362	327	35	40	30	4	3	46
3	London Wasps *	13	9	1	3	358	337	21	37	33	3	2	42
4	Harlequins *	13	8	2	3	367	327	40	38	30	2	3	40
5	Leicester Tigers	13	6	0	7	315	323	-8	26	29	0	7	31
6	Exeter Chiefs *	13	5	4	4	318	324	-6	27	28	0	4	31
7	Saracens	13	5	1	7	315	334	-19	28	30	0	7	29
8	Bath Rugby *	13	5	1	7	337	340	-3	33	33	1	7	28
9	Gloucester	13	5	0	8	333	334	-1	29	30	0	7	27
10	Newcastle Falcons *	13	3	1	9	316	348	-32	28	33	2	7	22
11	London Irish	13	2	2	9	318	348	-30	28	35	1	8	21
12	London Welsh	13	3	0	10	303	350	-47	26	36	0	6	18

Links

Fixture List
Released/Championship/National League/Academy Bidding
Foreign Transfers
Budgets
European Homepage
Anglo Welsh Homepage

Welcome to Season 7 of the Aviva Premiership fantasy rugby game. Below are the rules of the game which must be adhered to. If there are any situations that arise in the course of the game which are not covered by the rules, a final decision will be made by the RFU (SJE) as to how the situation will be resolved.

Senior Squads wrote:
The maximum squad size is 40 senior players. If a team has more than 40 players in their squad then they will be fined £1 million per player over the permitted amounts per day for the first seven days. If after 7 consecutive days a team still has more than the permitted number of players then the team will be fined £2 million per player per day, and fined 1 league point per player per day for the next seven days. If after this time a team still has more than the permitted number of players in their squad, the RFU (SJE) will remove players at its discretion to bring them back under the permitted numbers. There will be no right of appeal to players being removed.

Be aware that all tier one international matches which are played during the season will count in the game, and players selected in the match day 23's for those matches will not be eligible to play for their clubs on that weekend, therefore you must give due consideration to the make-up of your squad.

Academy Rules wrote:
Each team will be allowed to have an academy squad of 20 players. Players who are in the academy must be born on or after 1st September 1992.

Any player, who is at any Premiership club in real life, either in their senior, academy or AASE squads, can be bid for on the domestic bidding page. Players who are at your own club in real life and are coming through the academy system must be bid for if you want them in your own academy.

Transfers wrote:

Domestic (other AP Teams)
Each team has a budget to use in the purchase of players. Domestic transfers between AP clubs, regardless of nationality of player, should be negotiated between the respective managers, and then confirmed on the Domestic Transfer Confirmation Page.
Domestic (Championship and below)
Each team may during the season purchase no more than 5 players from the Championship or the National Leagues. These players must be bid for on the National League Bidding page, and each bid will be considered by me on its own merits before being accepted or rejected. No bid will be accepted until a minimum of 24 hours has elapsed from the time the bid was made, in order to afford other managers the opportunity to make a counter bid.
Foreign
To make a foreign transfer (i.e. from any club outside of the AP, regardless of whether the player is English) a bid should be made on the Foreign Transfers Page, which will be considered by me against the posted guidelines for purchase prices before being accepted or rejected. No bid will be accepted until a minimum of 24 hours has elapsed from the time the bid was made, in order to afford other managers the opportunity to make a counter bid.

There will be a summer foreign transfer window, which will run as follows.

Open Window

Open transfer window, teams have unlimited bids provided they have the financial resources to cover them. Teams may only bid for one player at a time.

The window will open from the 9th of June but only to those sides that finish 8th and below at first. They will have a week to make one signing each before the window is open to all.

Player Releases wrote:
Managers may choose to release players from their clubs, for which they will be offered compensation

Compensation will be paid as follows

£2 million – current international (must have played international rugby in the previous 12 months)
£1.5 million – former international
£1m – top flight experience
£0.5m – other

All released players will be deemed to have joined a Championship side and can be bid for on the National League Bidding page.

Retirements wrote:
There will be no compensation for retiring players. Should a player who retires decide to come out of retirement and play again, then he will automatically go back to the club who he was playing for in the game when he retired.

Fixtures wrote:
There will be 22 Aviva Premiership games per season, plus the play offs. There will also be European Rugby Champions Cup, European Rugby Challenge Cup and Anglo Welsh Cup matches. These games will take place once a week. A match thread will be put up every Monday. Home teams must be named by midnight on Tuesday. Away teams must be named by midnight on Wednesday. Failure to meet these deadlines is punishable by the addition of three match points to the oppositions final score, unless both sides fail to do so. Both teams must provide tactics by midnight on Thursday. Predictions will be open from 00:01 hours on Friday and remain open until 15:00 hours on Sunday. Managers will post the scores that they think will happen from these games (apart from games in which they are involved). An average of all predictions will be taken, and then 0.5 points added to each teams score for each prediction that had them as the winner, and that will then be the final score.

Managers are asked to provide detail as to why they have predicted a result. To be considered a descriptive prediction this must be a full 3 lines long when entered into the text box.

Teams wrote:
When naming your team, not only should you put the starting XV and replacements, but also tactics that your team will employ. Results will be affected by the tactics described.

In addition, each team must have the following:-

For domestic competition at least 8 England qualified players in your match day 23, and at least 4 of those must be in your starting XV.

For European competition at least 8 England qualified players in your match day 23, and at least 6 of those must be in your starting XV.

At least 2 props and 1 hooker on the bench.

All players must be eligible (not injured or banned).

Failure to comply with these rules will result in a 1 league point deduction.

If you fail to submit a team for a match, then the other team will be automatically awarded a 30-0 bonus point win. If both teams fail to submit a team, then it will be scored as a 0-0 draw.

Injuries and Suspensions wrote:
Injuries in this game do NOT reflect real life, they will be generated by me.

Players banned in real life will be ineligible for selection in this game for the duration of the ban.

Inclusion of injured/banned players will result in them being replaced by players on the bench, and the bench not having eight players, which may result in punishment if it concerns the front-row.

Punishment for fielding an ineligible player will be loss of one match point.

Financial Rewards wrote:
There will be no rewards for the result of an individual match, instead the managers will receive cash for predicting.

£2m for descriptive predictions
£0.25m for scores on the doors predictions
If you fail to predict without first advising me that you are unable to do so that week, you will be fined £1m for a first offence, £2m for a second offence, £3m for a third offence etc upto a maximum of £5m per fine.

AP finishing positions.

Champions: 8m
Runners Up: 6m
Playoff Semi Finalist Losers: 5m
5th: 4m
6th: 3.5m
7th: 3m
8th: 2.5m
9th: 2m
10th: 1.5m
11th: 1m
12th: 0.5m

Heineken Cup

Losing Quarter Finalists - £2 million each
Losing Semi Finalists - £3 million each
Runners Up - £4 million
Champions - £5 million

Amlin Challenge Cup

Losing Quarter Finalists - £1 million each
Losing Semi Finalists - £2 million each
Runners Up - £3 million
Champions - £4 million

Anglo-Welsh Cup

Losing Semi Finalist - £1 million each
Runners Up - £2 million
Champions - £3 million

If your budgets falls below minus £10 million for any reason, the administrators (SJE) will step in and players from within your squad will be released for the relevant financial compensation (foreign transfer value) in order to bring your budget back above minus £10 million.

by Guest Sun 04 Jan 2015, 4:10 pm

Leicester were excellent. Salvi deserved man of the match. Does that week in week out.

The commentator said he is probably the best player in the league without an international cap which I agree with. Played Australia A then moved over here. Would have been capped If he was English.

Gibson was also excellent and is having a fine season

by Sgt_Pooly Sun 04 Jan 2015, 4:16 pm

anonmattyt wrote:
Sgt_Pooly wrote:LCD not a big scrummager or anywhere near being 3rd choice England hooker by a long long way.

He is being considered is lancasters opinion he probably knows who is in the England reckoning better than us

To be fair he's not likely to say he's not in contention if questioned. He's hardly ripping up trees being 2nd choice at Exeter.

Salvi a very ordinary 7 imo. Tigers backrow options are pretty weak these days.

by dammit_chris Sun 04 Jan 2015, 6:22 pm

Think that's the first and only time you will see the words 'salvi' and 'very ordinary' in the same sentence! He's a fantastic player, probably been best Tiger player since he joined.

by Sgt_Pooly Sun 04 Jan 2015, 6:25 pm

Never really rated him, he's a decent AP player but no more.

Good win for your boys Chris, banging some points on the board.

by dammit_chris Sun 04 Jan 2015, 6:39 pm

We've started playing some really nice stuff, the calls for Wade to play for England will start again today. He's looking in great form again.

We shouldn't lose many during the 6Ns so think we might get a top4 spot this time round - Simpson was brilliant today and Davies has added something to our front five that we haven't had in a long time.

Our back row just seems to bully everyone out the way these days.

by Sgt_Pooly Sun 04 Jan 2015, 6:55 pm

You're looking great this season, hopefully you can keep Tigers out of the top 4.

by Guest Sun 04 Jan 2015, 7:00 pm

dammit_chris wrote:Think that's the first and only time you will see the words 'salvi' and 'very ordinary' in the same sentence! He's a fantastic player, probably been best Tiger player since he joined.

I held off commenting as I was astounded also.

by dammit_chris Sun 04 Jan 2015, 7:07 pm

Tigers are one of those teams that can scrape through though - not a fan of them at all really, Cockerill hasn't changed their style in years. Just watching the game now and they seemed to get all of the decisions from the ref.

Do wonder whether Wade will get a chance with Lancaster, when you see the highlights of his performance today you would hope he would do, seems to have even ironed out some defensive issues. Got to surely be ahead of Nowell and Yarde at the minute.

by Sgt_Pooly Sun 04 Jan 2015, 7:08 pm

Ordinary may be harsh, he's steady and a decent AP 7. There's better 7's in the league in Louw, Fraser, Burger, Haskell, Robshaw, Braid etc

by Guest Sun 04 Jan 2015, 7:10 pm

For me after louw he is next best. He played louw off the pitch today

by dammit_chris Sun 04 Jan 2015, 7:17 pm

Would agree with Mat on having Salvi as second best no7 in the league, Fraser isn't living up to his promise of a few years ago. Though would probably put Robshaw joint second. Burger has been brilliant, but this year it looks like the battering his body takes every game has caught up with him a bit. Haskell been brilliant but at Wasps we use him as another no6 and he's not an openside for us. Improved out of sight this year though.

How on earth was the Burgess try disallowed? Bath do play some nice stuff.

by Sgt_Pooly Sun 04 Jan 2015, 7:18 pm

No bias there lol

I wouldnt have him anywhere near Robshaw and Louw, complete different class. He's ok, certainly not a bad player. I'd have Braid well above him too, if he played for a top 4 side he'd get a much higher rating.

by Steven_Sharks Sun 04 Jan 2015, 11:58 pm

How'd Burgess go at 13

by Fluxy Mon 05 Jan 2015, 7:17 am

He was pretty quiet. They only really gave him slowish ball and pretty flat, so barely made any yards or impact. Was used as a dummy option a few times before Eastmond went off injured.

Looked alright defensively, I would say that it wasn't a game to measure him on as the Tigers pack really stopped the Bath forwards from providing a decent platform for their backs.

by Sgt_Pooly Mon 05 Jan 2015, 8:28 am

Another off to Japan....

http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,19078_9632721,00.html

by dammit_chris Mon 05 Jan 2015, 10:07 am

Steve, Burgess went well in the game that was really disrupted with constant infringement and silly little scuffles. His groundwork and ball protection in contact was good, but like Fluxy says he wasn't given a chance to attack, though he did score a try but it was wrongly disallowed by the ref for a forward pass (when it wasnt forward).

He seemed to interchange with Deveto a fair amount during the game, was quite impressed with him but still a long way off international rugby standard and RWC will come too soon (probably).

by SirJohnnyEnglish Mon 05 Jan 2015, 10:58 am

Table & budgets up to date. thumbsup

by Fluxy Mon 05 Jan 2015, 11:04 am

Brilliant hovering up in the top half of the league!

And joint second on the least number of losses this season, although most draws as well Chief

by Sgt_Pooly Mon 05 Jan 2015, 11:09 am

It's a tight mid table this year, I think the changes have made the league more competitive.

Matt's leaving his run for the top 4 a little late this year.

by Fluxy Mon 05 Jan 2015, 11:14 am

I think my mighty chiefs have only lost one in the past eight! Shocked

Last loss being to SJE three weeks ago, and then draws against Sarries and Wasps, last loss being Saints back in week seven I think!

by SirJohnnyEnglish Mon 05 Jan 2015, 12:46 pm

The dreaded injuries: https://www.606v2.com/t55473-injuries
Enjoy Smile

by Fluxy Mon 05 Jan 2015, 1:18 pm

Don't want to rub it in too much for those that have lost a fly half!

but with lopez out injured who would be a better replacement Flood or Madigan?

by Sgt_Pooly Mon 05 Jan 2015, 1:20 pm

Flood imo

by Guest Mon 05 Jan 2015, 1:40 pm

Flood a better player but not exactly had a great time in France.

Madigan is always decent at club level and something about him but think he is a better 12

by Guest Mon 05 Jan 2015, 1:42 pm

dammit_chris wrote:Steve, Burgess went well in the game that was really disrupted with constant infringement and silly little scuffles. His groundwork and ball protection in contact was good, but like Fluxy says he wasn't given a chance to attack, though he did score a try but it was wrongly disallowed by the ref for a forward pass (when it wasnt forward).

He seemed to interchange with Deveto a fair amount during the game, was quite impressed with him but still a long way off international rugby standard and RWC will come too soon (probably).

Great article in times about how Burgess is struggling to impact in Union due to it being a slower game. He was fine yesterday but the lack of space in Union and the side to side nature of the game means jts really difficult to impose yourself

by BamBam Mon 05 Jan 2015, 2:22 pm

Anyone got a loosehead I could have on loan to cover Matt Mullan's injury?

by Sgt_Pooly Mon 05 Jan 2015, 2:26 pm

I have a few Bam

by **Ozzy3213** Mon 05 Jan 2015, 3:21 pm

I also have a few Bam.

by Driver Mon 05 Jan 2015, 4:16 pm

Juan Pablo Orlandi has joined Falcons

by prop_lyd Mon 05 Jan 2015, 4:16 pm

Benvenuti joins Bristol

by Fluxy Mon 05 Jan 2015, 4:17 pm

Not a bad signing to be honest

by Sgt_Pooly Mon 05 Jan 2015, 4:26 pm

Two decent signings

by BamBam Mon 05 Jan 2015, 4:35 pm

Ozzy3213 wrote:I also have a few Bam.

Thanks Ozzy, have borrowed Auterac from Pooly so should be ok for now

by Guest Mon 05 Jan 2015, 4:58 pm

First for me to say anything positive about him but twelvetrees slotted a beauty on the weekend

by Fluxy Mon 05 Jan 2015, 5:45 pm

I am a little bit more inclined to the idea of 12trees as a 12 now, but still highlight videos only show up the best bits of players!

For me he hasn't done enough consistently to play for England.

by Sgt_Pooly Mon 05 Jan 2015, 5:56 pm

I do like him, he rarely plays badly for England

by LukeLovesLuka Mon 05 Jan 2015, 6:05 pm

anonmattyt wrote:First for me to say anything positive about him but twelvetrees slotted a beauty on the weekend

by Sgt_Pooly Mon 05 Jan 2015, 9:40 pm

Just as well he's a good scrummager....

http://m.sportsfan.com.au/rugbyunion-news-display/is-this-the-worst-rugby-pass-ever/151191

by Guest Mon 05 Jan 2015, 10:20 pm

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Just as well he's a good scrummager....

http://m.sportsfan.com.au/rugbyunion-news-display/is-this-the-worst-rugby-pass-ever/151191

Brilliant.

by Guest Tue 06 Jan 2015, 8:00 am

Tom croft in talks with gloucester

by Sgt_Pooly Tue 06 Jan 2015, 10:04 am

anonmattyt wrote:Tom croft in talks with gloucester

Looks like he doesn't have a future at Tigers anyway. Cockers said he was left out of the 23 due to not being selected, nothing to do with fitness?!?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-2897671/Tom-Croft-s-World-Cup-dream-doubt-England-flanker-struggles-make-matchday-squad-Leicester-Tigers.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

by Sgt_Pooly Tue 06 Jan 2015, 10:05 am

Hayman to retire end of the season.

http://www.espn.co.uk/france-top-14-2014-15/rugby/story/252357.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

by Guest Tue 06 Jan 2015, 10:10 am

Sgt_Pooly wrote:
anonmattyt wrote:Tom croft in talks with gloucester

Looks like he doesn't have a future at Tigers anyway. Cockers said he was left out of the 23 due to not being selected, nothing to do with fitness?!?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-2897671/Tom-Croft-s-World-Cup-dream-doubt-England-flanker-struggles-make-matchday-squad-Leicester-Tigers.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Struggling to get games to get back to fitness. Bit of a chicken and egg situation.

Would welcome a 2 time lion into the gloucester squad. He will not be short of clubs if he does leave

by Sgt_Pooly Tue 06 Jan 2015, 10:24 am

It's the baggage of his injuries that goes hand in hand with signing him. You can understand why Tigers want to offload as he'll want a substantial salary and hardly plays. Maybe a change of clubs will do him some good.

by Guest Tue 06 Jan 2015, 10:36 am

Tigers are always in a bind with the salary cap. They lose a lot of players. Also they often have a high england contingent whixh barely play which Cockerill often moans of.

To be fair he moans about everything. Personally I would be loathe to sign any player who has had a history of injuries like croft Cole parling tom Youngs even tuilagi if I owned leicester.

by Sgt_Pooly Tue 06 Jan 2015, 10:49 am

Cole has only had one injury I can recall. He's played pretty much every game for club & country for about 6 years.

by Guest Tue 06 Jan 2015, 11:45 am

Sgt_Pooly wrote:
anonmattyt wrote:Tom croft in talks with gloucester

Looks like he doesn't have a future at Tigers anyway. Cockers said he was left out of the 23 due to not being selected, nothing to do with fitness?!?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-2897671/Tom-Croft-s-World-Cup-dream-doubt-England-flanker-struggles-make-matchday-squad-Leicester-Tigers.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Apparently all to do with fitness

http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3551_9633917,00.html

by Sgt_Pooly Tue 06 Jan 2015, 11:51 am

I meant fitness as in injuries.

He obviously not match fit as he's played about one game in 2 years. A couple of years back Tigers would have been desperate to get him involved but for him not to even make the 23 points towards them looking to offload?

by SirJohnnyEnglish Tue 06 Jan 2015, 3:15 pm

Carl Hayman to retire at the end of the season: http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3551_9633962,00.html

by Sgt_Pooly Tue 06 Jan 2015, 3:30 pm

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Hayman to retire end of the season.

http://www.espn.co.uk/france-top-14-2014-15/rugby/story/252357.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

Too slow Johnny

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